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On animals
By Susan Orlean. 2021
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Magnificent." — The New York Times * "Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny." — San Francisco Chronicle * "Spectacular."…
— Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * "Full of astonishments." — The Boston Globe Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as "a national treasure" by The Washington Post and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Library Book —gathers a lifetime of musings, meditations, and in-depth profiles about animals. "How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages," writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon , she's been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they abide by us. Now, in On Animals , she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she has written over the course of her celebrated career. These stories consider a range of creatures—the household pets we dote on, the animals we raise to end up as meat on our plates, the creatures who could eat us for dinner, the various tamed and untamed animals we share our planet with who are central to human life. In her own backyard, Orlean discovers the delights of keeping chickens. In a different backyard, in New Jersey, she meets a woman who has twenty-three pet tigers—something none of her neighbors knew about until one of the tigers escapes. In Iceland, the world's most famous whale resists the efforts to set him free; in Morocco, the world's hardest-working donkeys find respite at a special clinic. We meet a show dog and a lost dog and a pigeon who knows exactly how to get home. Equal parts delightful and profound, enriched by Orlean's stylish prose and precise research, these stories celebrate the meaningful cross-species connections that grace our collective existenceOn connection
By Kae Tempest. 2021
Beneath the surface we are all connected . . . This is a meditation on the power of creative connection.…
Drawing on twenty years' experience as a writer and performer, Kae Tempest explores how and why creativity – however we choose to practise it – can cultivate greater self-awareness and help us establish a deeper relationship to ourselves and the world. Honest, tender and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is a call to arms that speaks to a universal yet intimate truth. "Powerful and merciful." ALI SMITH "[Kae's] language hits like lightning. It illuminates and it burns." GUARDIANWatching darkness fall: Fdr, his ambassadors, and the rise of adolf hitler
By David McKean. 2021
As German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the US Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to…
stay put, holed up in the Chateau St. Firmin in Chantilly, his country residence. Bullitt told the president that he would neither evacuate the embassy nor his chateau. As German forces closed in on the French capital, Bullitt wrote the president, "In case I should get blown up before I see you again, I want you to know that it has been marvelous to work for you." As the fighting raged in France, across the English Channel, Ambassador to Great Britain Joseph P. Kennedy wrote to his wife Rose, "The situation is more than critical. It means a terrible finish for the allies." David McKean's Watching Darkness Fall will recount the rise of the Third Reich in Germany and the road to war from the perspective of four American diplomats in Europe who witnessed it firsthand: Joseph Kennedy, William Dodd, Breckinridge Long, and William Bullitt, who all served in key Western European capitals-London, Berlin, Rome, Paris, and Moscow-in the years prior to World War II. In many ways they were America's first line of defense and they often communicated with the president directly, as Roosevelt's eyes and ears on the ground. Unfortunately, most of them underestimated the power and resolve of Adolf Hitler and Germany's Third ReichThe new york times book review: 125 years of literary history
By The New York Times. 2021
From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over…
the past 125 years. Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. It is the publication where authors have been made, and where readers first encountered the classics that have enriched their lives. Now the editors have curated the Book Review &’s dynamic 125-year history, which is essentially the story of modern American letters. Brimming with remarkable reportage, this book collects interesting reviews, never-before-heard anecdotes about famous writers, and spicy letter exchanges. Here are the first takes on novels we now consider masterpieces, including a long-forgotten pan of Anne of Green Gables and a rave of Mrs. Dalloway , along with reviews and essays by Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, Nora Ephron, and more. Listeners will discover how literary tastes have shifted through the years—and how the Book Review &’s coverage has shaped so much of what we read todayLeslie Howard: the lost actor
By Estel Eforgan. 2012
Biography of British stage and screen actor (1893-1943). Details his career, including the height of his success in Hollywood in…
the 1930s, when he starred in films such as Gone with the Wind and Pygmalion. Also covers his work as an anti-German propagandist during WWII and the rumors of wartime espionage. 2013Absolute power: how the pope became the most influential man in the world
By Paul Collins. 2018
Historian examines the history of the papacy from 1799 with the death of Pope Pius VI to the early twenty-first…
century and the installation of Pope Francis. Analyzes turning points which allowed the institution to move from being nearly subsumed by other political powers to a power of its own once again. 2018The third volume in a series covering history across the globe, describing the events that happened concurrently in each area.…
Discusses events concerning both larger historical figures and the common people, using literature, letters, firsthand accounts, and more. This volume covers the many transitions occurring globally during the Renaissance period. 2013An English governess in the Great War: the secret Brussels diary of Mary Thorp
By Tammy M. Proctor, Mary Thorp, Sophie De Schaepdrijver. 2017
The diary of Mary Thorp, an Englishwoman who worked as a governess in German-occupied Brussels during World War I. Beginning…
in 1916, the entries describe the daily strains of life under foreign occupation. 2017The Oxford companion to modern poetry (Oxford Paperback Reference Ser.)
By Jeremy Noel-Tod, Ian Hamilton. 2013
Updated second edition of a reference work first published in 1994. Contains over 1,700 entries. Includes short biographies of poets…
writing in English since 1910, covering works they are best known for and publication histories; particular groups and movements; and lists of anthologies, prizes, and prize winners. 2013Essays and reviews (Library of America Edgar Allan Poe Edition Ser. #2)
By Edgar Allan Poe, G. R. Thompson. 1984
Collection of Edgar Allan Poe's writings includes his thoughts on poetry; reviews he wrote on many American, British, and Continental…
authors; his views of the literary world he moved in; essays; and more. Compilation material selected and notes written by G. R. Thompson. 1984The faithful spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the plot to kill Hitler
By John Hendrix. 2018
Recounts the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor who started a church in Germany that opposed Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party.…
Describes Bonhoeffer's alliance with conspirators who sought to kill Hitler, his imprisonment, and his execution just weeks before Germany's surrender. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2018A concise history of Switzerland (Cambridge Concise Histories Ser.)
By Clive H. Church, Randolph C. Head, Clive H Church. 2013
Account of Switzerland's history, tracing the country's cultural, religious, and political development from the Dark Ages until the early twenty-first…
century. Discusses the Confederacy of the Middle Ages, historical religious divisions, turmoil following the French Revolution, the effects of the two world wars, and the country's postwar-era successes. 2013A concise history of Romania (Cambridge concise histories)
By Keith Hitchins. 2014
An account of Romania's history, beginning with the Roman conquest of Dacia and ending with the early twenty-first century. Discusses…
the significance of Romania's location bordering both Eastern and Western societies. Evaluates the country's role in a larger European context. 2014This bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color
By Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga. 2015
Collection of essays and poetry by women of color exploring issues including colonialism, homophobia, roots of radicalism, theory as it…
plays out in the real world, racism in the women's movement, and women's experiences in the developing world. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2015El Norte: the epic and forgotten story of Hispanic North America
By Carrie Gibson. 2019
The author of Empire's Crossroads (DB 80362) explores the Hispanic past of North America, beginning with the arrival of Spanish…
explorers in the early sixteenth century and continuing through the early twenty-first century. Discusses key events and historical figures along with cultural issues of language, community, race, and nationality. 2019Pagan light: dreams of freedom and beauty in Capri
By Jamie James. 2019
Author of The Snake Charmer (DB 68151) presents a history of the island of Capri--located off the Neapolitan coast of…
Italy--from the time of the Roman emperors to the early twentieth century. Discusses artists of note who have claimed the island for inspiration, including Maxim Gorky, Romaine Brooks, and Mark Twain. 2019The second volume of a two-part collection of essays and reviews by the literary critic includes uncollected reviews and three…
books of essays: The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow, and Classics and Commercials. Companion to Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & '30s (DB 96220). 2007Nobody's looking at you: essays
By Janet Malcolm. 2019
Collection of eighteen essays by the author of In the Freud Archives (DB 22346) and The Journalist and the Murderer…
(DB 89364). The title piece is a profile of fashion designer Eileen Fisher and the title is a quote from a frequent piece of advice from Fisher's mother. 2019Una historia de España
By Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Arturo Perez-Reverte. 2019
A history of the main events that have occurred since Spain's origins and up through the end of the Transition,…
with a subjective view. Originally written over the course of more than four years in the "Patente de corso" column for XL Semanal. Spanish language. 2019White flights: race, fiction, and the American imagination
By Jess Row. 2019
Seven essays examining the connection between literature by white writers and the movement of white Americans into racially segregated communities.…
Topics include reparative writing, becoming aware of issues surrounding race, defining white writing, creation of white spaces, and multiracial identities. 2019